sbo24

As some of you may know, I've been working on a Taurus clone called the Härkä (Finnish for bull or Taurus) for a while; first in the 2022 SBO, and again in the 2024 WBO so I'll use this SBO to finnish it. Here's the current state: As you can see, the cabinet is mostly done, just need to drill...

My non-bass partial build for the SBO 24 will be a Meteora guitar with a Hoxey aluminum neck. This is a gift for my wife to celebrate finishing her degree. She loves Travis Bean guitars so this build will draw inspiration from those as well as the Kramer aluminum neck models. She left the body...

My second entry in the 2024 Summer Build Off. Nivå (sounds like Tivo) in Norwegian means level, or flat. Like the fingerboard on a fretless bass. This is a bit of a redo: Last summer I built my first 34" scale fretless bass. It had a solid northern ash body, pau ferro fingerboard, Nordstrand...

Maybe 15 months ago I caught the building bug by building a 6-string shortscale bass after deciding none of the items for sale were quite what I wanted. That one had a bass bridge and thus bass string spacing, perfect for fingerstyle playing. Now I want to fill the Fender VI niche with something...